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Introverted and odd. That’s how former friends and teammates remember a Calgary man accused of running a prolific multimillion-dollar, city-based international drug cartel — one investigators have linked to both Mexican narcotics rings and a brazen 2017 double homicide. Last week, details emerged about Project Arbour, a far-reaching investigation carried out by the Alberta Law […]

Long-time Calgary criminal lawyer Christopher (C.D.) Evans and publisher Lorene Shyba have co-edited an incredible collection of memorable cases by 20 prominent Canadian lawyers and prosecutors that have had significant impacts on their careers.

Facing a lengthy second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of Amy Marie Sands at a southeast garage party more than two years ago, Jesse George Hill pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter with a firearm. However, Hill, 28, did not admit to being the shooter, but rather a party to the incident in which Sands, 27, was struck by a stray bullet intended for another target inside the garage following a dispute over drugs and derogatory comments allegedly made to him earlier on the morning of Aug. 31, 2012.

The stabbing death of a Calgary man last year was a homicide — but it wasn’t a crime, authorities determined this week. After a lengthy investigation, police and prosecutors have determined the man who stabbed Youssef Samih Jeha during an altercation inside a house on Hunterhorn Drive N.E. was being held captive.

Bad blood dating back several years is believed to have led to the “cowardly” fatal stabbing of Mario Gomez on the dance floor of a northeast Calgary bar more than two years ago, a judge said in sentencing Michael Delday to 10 years in prison on Wednesday. Delay received an additional five years in jail on drug and gun charges.

Television crime dramas and reality shows often portray time as an enemy of homicide investigators — and in many cases it is. But time can also work in favour of efforts to bring killers to justice: changing technology can allow police to see evidence in a new light; changing relationships, meanwhile, can bring forward people no longer willing to keep a killer’s dark secret.

Calgary Muslims honoured on Friday the two Canadian soldiers killed this week in separate terrorist attacks and condemned the men accused in their deaths. “Your actions are not only abhorrent, cowardly, despicable and inhuman, but you are unequivocally outside the teachings of Islam,” said David Liepert, founder of the Calgary Islamic Chamber Institute.

A second forensic psychiatrist in as many days has testified that Derek Puffer should be found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder for the stabbing deaths last year of his parents ­­— mother Donna Lee Powers and stepfather Billy Powers. Dr. Sergio Santana told defence lawyer Alain Hepner on Thursday that Puffer, 40, has schizophrenia and although he knew generally what he was doing on July 4, 2013, he did not know it was morally wrong at the time when he stabbed each of them many times while they were sleeping in their bed of their Braeside home,

After two soldiers were killed in stunning attacks within days of each other in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., reservists in Calgary made some security changes at a downtown armoury, but vowed their work would go on. “These are our family, so we want to make sure that they’re protected,” said Capt. Steven Zivkow, of the Calgary Highlanders, a land reserve infantry unit, though he would not disclose exactly what precautions have been taken.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Ken Hashman concluded in his lengthy assessment last year that Derek Puffer should be deemed not criminally responsible for fatally stabbing his parents in their bed of their Braeside home. Hashman said Puffer’s mental state was worsening in the days leading up to the day he killed Donna Lee Powers and Calgary sports icon Billy Powers, and without treatment he could not fight what the voices were telling him.

Accused killer Derek Puffer will take the witness stand on Wednesday morning in his trial for fatally stabbing his mother Donna Lee Powers and his stepfather, Calgary sports legend Billy Powers, in their beds of their Braeside home last year, his lawyer Alain Hepner told court on Tuesday.

Derek Puffer showed no emotion as Crown prosecutor Jonathan Hak on Monday described the bloody scene where he fatally stabbed his parents — mother Donna Lee Powers and stepfather, Calgary sportscaster legend Billy Powers — at their Braeside home on July 4, 2013.

Alberta’s top court has overturned the second-degree murder conviction of a woman who claimed self-defence in the killing of a Calgary man who paid her for sex. Crystal Aldina Crowchild, 29, was handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 14 years for fatally stabbing Aref Nassereddine at his southwest Calgary home on March 17, 2010.

A Calgary woman who axed her roommate to death, dismembered her body and left it in a friend’s garage for five months before it was found, has applied for early parole. Alain Hepner, lawyer for Deborah Louise Point, filed the papers early Wednesday afternoon for a judicial review at Court of Queen’s Bench under the so-called faint hope clause permissible after having served 15 years.

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